When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A new report evaluating the quality of streaming media codecs has chosen RealVideo as the best ...

The growing demand for High Definition (HD) provides a more 'life-like' experience—on TVs, PCs, and telephones. HD voice promises rich collaboration applications, whether it's 1-to-1 phone calls or ...

Welcome to your codec update for 2023. I’m here to help you decide whether it’s time to go all in on AV1, VVC, LCEVC, or EVC or whether it’s better to stick with H.264, VP9, and HEVC. As an overview, ...

I had heard that the 4.0 codec results in a better quality than the normal 3.11 codec. I use the double pass encoding of the 4.0 codec and 3.11 supports only one pass. Nandub does allow multiple ...

Maintaining a Windows-based PC has, in most respects, gotten easier over the years. OS 'hackability' (the bad kind) has dropped, and Windows Update has become a terrific tool for minimal-intervention ...

Learn more about emerging codecs at Streaming Media East 2022. Read the complete transcript of this clip: Jan Ozer: 18 years ago, H.264 came to market and dominated because it was the best codec. And ...

John, in the article “NPR Labs Eyes Streaming Technology” [radioworld.com, keyword Kean], I wish that you had also looked at Opus (http://opus-codec.org/). I ...

(1) Dynamically switching codec settings (bandwidth, resolution, etc.) on the fly due to changes in congestion on the network. (2) Dynamically switching video codecs on the fly in order to achieve the ...